Whether capacity planning is long term or short term depends on the specific capacity requirements. With the right technology, forecasting, and modular solutions, businesses can adapt their capacity requirements almost instantly. So capacity planning can be both short term and long term depending on the capacity requirements.
For example McDonald’s example (for a visual representation : https://youtu.be/Jt9YqN0oSiU) of constructing a building in 13 hours and starting operations on the same day is an excellent demonstration of how capacity planning can be short-term when the right methods (for example: the modular construction that happens with McDonalds) are used.
On the other hand, complex, highly secure businesses (like banks) need a hybrid approach—leveraging advanced engineering but still requiring some level of long-term strategic planning.
Even if advanced engineering solutions and technology allow rapid construction, you won’t find any bank set up a single floor and starting operations on that floor within the same day – to these very days. At best you will find companies expanding their headquarters or production facilities to ensure the companies meet future demands over months or years.
So, capacity planning can be both long term and short term depending on the capacity requirements of the business, industry, scalability needs, operational complexity and regulatory constraints.
Now how do you explain capacity planning can be both long term and short term to a marketer, Sales Gal, aka Disney princess aka Solution Engineers interpolating in between paths and coordinates?
Imagine a Swiss bank is like a big and super secure treehouse where people keep their money safe. Now lets say that bank suddenly needs more space – maybe that bank people want to add another floor to the treehouse.
If they could magically place a new floor in one day and start using it immediately that would be short term capacity planning – like quickly adding a new branch to a treehouse and letting people climb up the same day.
But a Swiss bank is not just any treehouse – it has to be super strong, secure and planned properly otherwise the whole thing might fall apart for piling up money.
If the Swiss bank engineers don’t plan ahead – that treehouse might fall down and crash on the road. So, that Swiss bank needs engineers to make sure the new floor is strong, secure, and properly planned to work well with the rest of the bank. That’s exactly a long-term capacity planning—like carefully building and reinforcing the treehouse so it lasts a long time.
That sales girl aka marketer aka disney person aka solution engineers might start traversing back and forth and even may go forward and ask you “so thats like – if Swiss bank wants to implement an ERP from scratch – that’s long term capacity planning and then can we forecast the probability of that project’s success?” –
Ghastly mistakes she makes. Both you and I know – the ghastly and deadly mistakes both of us often make but we must try to forgive and forget.
Your best bet would be to say “that’s a whole range of different topics ma’am – some other day and yes you’ll get a chance to prove yourself in the finals.”
Explaining Short Term and Long Term Capacity Planning to Goldilocks & Other Worldlies
Whether capacity planning is long term or short term depends on the specific capacity requirements. With the right technology, forecasting, and modular solutions, businesses can adapt their capacity requirements almost instantly.
For example, McDonald’s at the Bognor Regis, on the south coast of England built by the Conlon Construction Principal Contractors was done in 1 single day! Construction of the entire building from scratch in 13 hours and starting operations on the same day is how capacity planning can be short-term when the right methods (for example: modular construction) are used.
On the other hand, complex, highly secure businesses like Luxembourg private vault or Swiss banks would need a hybrid approach—leveraging advanced engineering and requiring some level of long-term strategic planning.
So yes you may get cloud-based ERPs as NetSuite, SAP, Odoo, Epicor, Acumatica or even Microsoft Dynamics deployed right away but you will still need a designated implementation partner or designated solution partner with advanced engineering practices for some level of long term strategic planning depending on your business complexity, scalability needs, regulatory requirements, and operational goals.
Month end you want your business to sustain and we as the Oracle NetSuite implementation partner and solution provider always strive to ensure your system is not just operational in the short term but also optimized for efficiency in the long run. Our stairway approach of Oracle NetSuite implementation and any erp implementation in general ensures that the system is optimized for the sustained growth of your business. Like us like you and like you like us – in general.
Installing software on a target environment along with a license can indeed be done overnight – this we can tell from our years of practice in the ERP domain. In fact doing so can make a business operational in short term even but you would want your business to sustain. Won’t you?
And that’s what we do – we ensure no matter whether it’s NetSuite ERP or SuiteSuccess or say particular NetSuite module that you want to be integrated into your system – we ensure that the system aligns with your business specific workflows and the system’s capabilities also brings efficiency and productivity to your business.
Now when we are speaking about ERPs in Bangladesh, Odoo, SAP and Tally always creeps in the conversation out of nowhere. So I’ll need to clarify regarding those niches.
See, developing modules like that of Odoo from scratch is possible using python and a host of other languages – in fact that’s what some partnership ecosystem does – they expect from their partners and solution providers to develop / alter codes to make a sale.
But we as Oracle NetSuite partners don’t recommend altering codes. Altering codes is not our practices.
Also multiple databases as like SAP Hana gets really messy down the road. Data sits silo inside multiple databases. Multiple databases doesn’t give the agility to your business nor does it give the agility to your customer.
So a single master database as that with NetSuite is super important where you can put parent levels for security and simultaneously you can allow your company to get end to end visibility of the database.
Lots of vendors claim they do financial consolidations in QuickBooks and they have been claiming these with Microsoft Dynamics 365 since decades.
You got to ask them how do they do it? They can tell you they do it. But how?
Is it native? Or is customization way around ? – Because we have been doing this for a long time. We are a multi company and we generally recommend Oracle – OneWorld, Oracle NetSuite and SuiteSuccess because these three Oracle’s products are built on Oracle’s leading practices. If your budget allows we would recommend OneWorld from NetSuite and Oracle ERP perhaps.
The Cloud ERP from Oracle is NetSuite that we sell, implement in general and deploy at few instances – which works as a pre-built solution for your business. We, as Oracle NetSuite partner don’t alter any of the Oracle’s products as the partners cum python developers of Odoo. Oracle and IBM ecosystems are different. Similarly, Oracle and vendors of enterprise resource planning software’s ecosystems are different.
With over 20 years of experience working with top companies in your industry, Oracle NetSuite is already already engineered with the best practices. It’s pre-configured, industry-specific, and ready to go.
Here’s the best part— with Oracle NetSuite implemented from Omnilab, 80% of your system is ready on day one, giving you a serious head start. The final 20%? That’s where Omnilab’s ERP seniors fine-tune it to fit your unique business needs. This means faster results and none of the delays or hassles that come with building everything from scratch.
And it doesn’t stop there. Remember, the need to sustain? A business always strives to sustain – like us like you ; like you like us – the need for sustainability persists in every business.
With our stairway approach of ERP implementation / deployment / integrating modules or getting you that Oracle NetSuite application suite as OneWorld and whichever you choose from Oracle world and beyond, we ensure that the system grows with you.
We start with what you need today and scale up as your business evolves. After all, that SuiteSuccess that both you and I want to achieve isn’t just about getting you started—it’s about setting you on a path to long-term growth and success, one step at a time.☝️
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